Anydesk Software Development Systems Hacked

December 18, 2024

INCIDENT

Anydesk recently struggled with disruptions, the company now confirms that it is the victim of an IT incident. The company activated its emergency plan.

The company has revoked all security-related certificates. Systems have been repaired or replaced where necessary. The code signing certificate used to date will be withdrawn shortly and the manufacturer has started using a new one. Anydesk systems are not designed to store private keys, security tokens or passwords, Anydesk adds in the statement.

AnyDesk suffered a four-day outage during which the company disabled the ability to log in to the AnyDesk client. On Feburary 1 access was restored.

Incident Date

January 27, 2024

Location

Germany

Estimated Cost

4 day outage

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified